Yearly Archives: 2018

We had a great weekend at Henry Ford Museum participating in Maker Faire Detroit. The artists of Camp PencilPoint had a blast drawing with hundreds of kids and parents! It was great to see all ages participating in each drawing session: from 3 to 30 to 300 (we believe there was one guy in the back of one session, but he didn’t look a day over 298!) Over the course of both Saturday and Sunday, we held 12 drawing sessions. Each was kicked off with a grand entrance by our lady of the bagpipes Emily, followed by a step by step drawing of an owl, a bear or a llama with Joe Foo and finished with a hilarious game of “Exquisite Corpse”.

Thank you to all of the Camp PencilPointers that joined us for these sessions and thank you to everyone that shared their wonderful artwork with us. You are all amazing and inspiring! It goes to show that creativity is always better when it is a shared experience.Continue reading →

Live Sketch Challenge – Once again,Chef Miker tries to draw in the Daredevil Gauntlet, this time live at Maker Faire Detroit! What does the Daredevil Gauntlet entail? Simply put, it is blind drawing but with heightened senses. In this case, it is the sense of touch. How do you increase the sense of touch? You use cold, sticky, wet spaghetti. Joe Foo and Emily both dump cooked spaghetti down the back of Chef Miker’s shirt as he sketches!

In this video, Chef Miker blindly sketches a bear, a walrus, a wombat (kinda), an orca and a gorilla. Not only is Chef Miker blindfolded, but he also is not wearing his glasses… making him extra blind! The purpose of this challenge is not to create an amazing drawing. It actually sets you up to fail. However, when you take away all of your expectations of perfection, you end up having a lot of fun. What you are left with is a lot of laughs and possibly a chance to spark some creativity. Continue reading →

Maker Faire Detroit 2017 — In tonights video, we recap Camp PencilPoint’s appearance at Detroit Maker Faire at The Henry Ford Museum in 2017. Some highlights include Joe Foo drawing funny characters using simple shapes, Josh and Rachel sketching in the game Exquisite Corpse, and most importantly… EMILY LEADING THE PARADES PLAYING THE BAGPIPES!!

Camp PencilPoint will do this all again at Maker Faire Detroit on July 28-29. Check out DetroitMakerfaire.com for times, directions and ticket prices. All the artists of Camp PencilPoint will be there, and there will be six drawing session per day. We have so many activities planned! These include:

• Drawing characters using simple shapes!
• Live Sketch Challenges like Silly Scribbles, Exquisite Corpse and Tag Drawing!
• The introduction of Draw or Pie!
• A chance to win original sketches from the artists!
• A chance to chat, take selfies and draw with the artists!

Otter House Activity— Tonight Joe Foo draws a confident lawyer bear wearing a tight and high collared shirt… just like the kind they wore in the 1900’s. Joe builds off of the character he created back in March in this video!

Also in this video, Joe talks about Camp PencilPoint’s appearance at Detroit Maker Faire on July 28-29. All the artists of Camp PencilPoint will be there, and there will be six drawing session per day. Please join us for all of the fun, nonsense and tomfoolery! Click on the link in the APPEARANCES section for more details. Continue reading →